39% of Canadians Now Use Tablets
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission this week released information on the telecommunications sector from the 2014 Communications Monitoring Report.
The report shows...
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CRTC Issues First Wireless Code Report Card
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has issued its first Wireless Code Implementation Report Card.
The "report card" judges how Canada's telcos have done so far in...
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CRTC Wireless Code Officially Comes into Force
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission today marked the coming into force of its wireless code, which enables Canadians to cancel their contracts at no cost after a maximum...
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Does Canada Still Need Payphones?
Does Canada still need payphones?
It's a question that most will answer instantly and definitively "yes!" or "no!" to. Which is why the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications...
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CRTC Adding New Area Code to BC in June
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is adding a new area code to all of BC in response to the increasing demand for new phone numbers in the province.
The new area...
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Regulators: Bell is Cheating
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has found BCE Inc., AKA Bell Canada, in breach of rules.
It's been revealed that the major Canadian telco has been giving access to...
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CRTC decides to hold off regulating online TV
The CRTC has released the results of a fact finding exercise responding to claims from several Cable companies that the Over the Top (Internet Delivered) TV services should be held to the same...
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The search is on for CRTC's next chairperson
Konrad von Finckenstein, current chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, has launched a process to find his replacement.
His five-year term ends in January,...
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How usage based billing will affect you
A couple of weeks ago the CRTC made a valiant proclamation:
“From hereon in, the company known as Bell may (by royal decree) charge people more money when they use more bandwidth.”...
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Is the CRTC being too harsh on Bell?
This article was written by Kole McRae and originally published on Geek Juice.
News broke recently that Bell Canada had been charged $1.3 million in fines by the CRTC. This fine was charged due to...
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Should the CRTC regulate Netflix?
Shaw Colmmunications is saying that the CRTC should regulate companies like Netflix that provide videos and movies over the Internet, even though Netflix is not a broadcaster.
From The Globe and...
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Bell defends traffic shaping to the CRTC
Bell Canada defended their Internet connection throttling practice to Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission at the final net neutrality hearing today, claiming the practice is...
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CRTC extends new media exemption
After several weeks of hearings and few more spent deliberating, the Canadian Radio Telecommunications Commission has decided to continue exempting new media broadcasting from regulation.
That...
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CRTC in hot water over failed Do-Not-Call List
Have you noticed that you're receiving more call from US-based telemarketers since adding your number to Canada's do-not-call registry?
Well it turns out Canada's highly touted do-not-call list is...
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